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 Car Hire & Driving in Frankfurt, GermanyWelcome to Frankfurt am Main Car Hire, Germany; available at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.Frankfurt am Main Car HireSituated in western Germany, Frankfurt is within easy reach of Mainz in your German hire car and lies close to the border with southern Germany giving you much to explore in your German hire car. For an idea of what you might see on a trip from Frankfurt to Mainz in your German hire car, visit our Mainz Car Hire link. A city rich in culinary traditions, including Handkase mit Music and Apfelwein, and home to a plethora or world-class museums, Frankfurt is the economic heart of Germany and one of Germany’s most cosmopolitan cities, all for you to explore in your German hire car. Known locally as Mainhattan, Frankfurt am Main (pronounced ‘Mine’) is the closest thing western Germany has to a high-rise metropolis. Frankfurt’s skyline includes the 299m (981ft) Commerzbank and the Main Tower at 200m (656ft) tall, which is the new headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and can be clearly seen from all directions in your German hire car. Frankfurt is also home to the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, and the German stock exchanged, and Frankfurt is also renowned for its numerous trade fairs, which you may be able to visit in your German hire car. Not surprisingly, this world of commerce in Frankfurt is reflected at street level in the designer stores that line Frankfurt’s streets, which you can happily investigate in your German hire car. But beyond the wolkenkratzer, literally ‘cloud scrappers’, and bright lights of the financial district of Frankfurt lies a city with an attractive medieval core for you to explore in your German hire car with plenty to interest you in Frankfurt in your German hire car. The highlights of Frankfurt that you should visit in your German hire car while in Frankfurt include: The focus of Frankfurt’s compact Altstadt is the beautiful restored Romerberg, a cobbled, octagonal square that’s known locally as the Great Parlour and worth seeking out in your German hire car while in Frankfurt. Market fairs were held here in Frankfurt as early as the 9th century, and the striking Town Hall, which you can visit in your German hire car, made up of three buildings united by a Gothic gable, was originally built in the 15th century. Although there is not actually much more to see here in your German hire car, it’s a perfect starting point for exploring the rest of Frankfurt. At the heart of Frankfurt’s Museum Embankment and just a few minutes in your German hire car from the Romerburg, is the Stadel Art Institute, one of Germany’s leading fine art museum. The permanent collection at Frankfurt’s Stadel Museum contains more than 600 masterpieces of European art from the 14th to the 20th centuries and is definitely worth a visit in your German hire car while in Frankfurt. The Museum of Modern Art is in a striking triangular building, which you will find at Domstrasse 10, 60311Frankfurt am Main in your German hire car. The core of the museum’s collection consists of American and European art from the 1960s and 70s and is worth visiting in your German hire car while in Frankfurt. Another museum that you should make time to visit in your German hire car while in Frankfurt is the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, which you will find at Schaumainkai 43, 60596 Frankfurt am Main in your German hire car. Most of the gallery space in this splendid museum in Frankfurt is set aside for temporary shows, but the permanent exhibition of twenty five brilliant models of some of the world’s most famous buildings offering you a complete guided tour of architectural history, is worth the entry fee alone. For details of what is on at Frankfurt’s architecture museum you can ask at Frankfurt Tourist Information Office, who will also be able to provide advice on what to see and do in your German hire car while in Frankfurt. Frankfurt Tourist Information Office can be located at Hauptbahnhof, 60329 Frankfurt am Main in your German hire car while in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt Tourist Information Office can also supply you with a Frankfurt Card, which can provide you with 50% discount at 21 museums that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while in Frankfurt, plus other discounts. It’s good to note that many o the museums that you may wish to visit in your German hire car in Frankfurt are free one Wednesday each month. Frankfurt Tourist Information Office can provide you with further details. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport Car HireFrankfurt-Hahn Airport lies 60km (37 miles) from Mainz in your German hire car. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport has 2 passenger terminals with an annual capacity of 5 million passengers through 17 check-in desks. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport operates 24 hours a day. At Frankfurt-Hahn Airport there are 202 short term and 10,000 long term parking spaces, should you need to leave your German hire car at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including bank, bureau de change, auto exchange machine, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, VIP lounge, duty free shop, newsagent/tobacconist, chemist, gift shop, car rental services, first aid, baby/parent room, disabled access/facilities and a tourist help desk, which can provide advice on what to see and do in your German hire car while in Frankfurt. Western Germany Car HireThere is much more to Western Germany than the economic powerhouses of Dusseldorf, Bonn, Frankfurt and Cologne/Koln, as you will be able to experience in your German hire car while in Western Germany. Once you’ve seen Cologne/Koln’s cathedral in your German hire car, experience Dusseldorf’s K20 museum in your German hire car, and visit Beethoven’s birthplace in Bonn in your German hire car; you can retreat to the wine producing valleys of the Mosel and the Rhine in Western Germany in your German hire car, and explore their castles in your German hire car. For cultural highlights in Western Germany, looks also to the attractive towns of Munster, Trier, Aachen and Mainz in your German hire car. In Western Germany you can obtain a German hire car at Cologne/Koln, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and Monchengladbach/Gladbach. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip in your German hire car to these places in Western Germany, visit our Cologne/Koln Car Hire, Dortmund Car Hire, Dusseldorf Car Hire, Frankfurt Car Hire or Monchengladbach/Gladbach Car Hire links. The quality of the German road network makes driving a German hire car an excellent way to explore Germany. Although constant driving in your German hire car at high speed can be tiring, the Autobahn makes it possible to cover long distance across Germany in your German hire car in a short time, enabling you to move easily in your German hire car from one area of interest to another. A German hire car is the best way of getting around Germany if you aim to explore smaller towns, villages and the countryside of Germany. The best known feature of Germany’s extensive and well maintained road system that you can use in your German hire car is the Autobahn, the network of toll-free motorways covering the whole of Germany. However other roads like Bundesstrassen (national roads) and Landstrassen (main roads) are generally engineered to a high standard, with good surfaces and helpful signposting to help you navigate in your German hire car. While driving around Germany in your German hire car you will find that Autobahns are identified by a white letter ‘A’ and a number on a blue background and national roads by a black letter ‘B’ and number on a yellow background. The previously inadequate road network of eastern Germany has been transformed beyond recognition through the construction of motorways across eastern Germany, like the Ostseeautobahn, which links the Baltic coast to the rest of Germany, and through the improvement of other roads, which now make the roads of eastern Germany a pleasure to use in your German hire car. The downside to all this rebuilding across Germany is the density of traffic. In your German hire car, you may find that congestion can be acute in built-up areas and anywhere at holiday times. There are more than 100 named tourist routes that you can use in your German hire car which criss-cross Germany. Some, such as stretches of the Deutsche Alpenstrasse (German Alpine Road) that you can use in your German hire car, were purpose-built as scenic highways through Germany, although most are ordinary roads linking places of similar interest that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while. The best known of these routes that you can explore in your German hire car while is probably the Romantische Strasse (Romantic Road), which run from Wurzburg in northern Bavaria to Fussenn at the foot of the Alps and takes you through picturesque, historic towns in your German hire car on the way. Even if they are not designated as such, many of the roads you can use in your German hire car through Germany’s well-wooded uplands qualify as scenic routes, and extensions of the Autobahn networks that you can use in your German hire car also offer spectacular visual experience of the German countryside. Germans are fast drivers and determined popular resistance among motorists has prevented the adoption of a compulsory speed limit on Germany’s Autobahn. Although the speeds can be a little unnerving when driving in your German hire car, most drivers are aware of what they are doing and respect the rules of the road, having passed Germany’s particularly rigorous driving test. Once you have become used to conditions in your German hire car, you will find the behaviour of fellow road users fairly predictable. While exploring Germany in your German hire car it is useful to have knowledge of the rules of the roads. Germans drive on the right; on roads without yellow diamond priority signs, you should give way to traffic from the right in your German hire car; seat belts must be worn by all occupants of you German hire car; children under 12 must use an appropriate safety seat while travelling in your German hire car; you should halt at tram stops where there is no central reservation in your German hire car and allow passengers to cross the road; you should give way to trams and buses in your German hire car as they leave stops; ensure you use dipped headlights on your German hire car in poor visibility and in tunnels; do not use side lights when driving your German hire car; give way to pedestrians in your German hire car when turning at uncontrolled junctions (intersections); do not drink and drive you German hire car as the penalties are severe; traffic lights are supplemented by priority signs, which must be obeyed in your German hire car when the lights are not functioning e.g. at night or weekends; insulting behaviour to others while driving in your German hire car is an offence; fines can be imposed on the spot by police and your German hire car may be confiscated; finally a flashing light may indicating that you can turn right in your German hire car when traffic lights are red, but you must give way to traffic coming from the other direction.
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